dittybopper:An *OPTIONAL* civics course, one of many different online courses offered on a bunch of different subjects.

Yep, totally optional. You can decide to take it or you can decide to never find any advancement within the company again.

While workers are not required to take the course, those who hope for promotions may feel pressure to do so, since it is clear that management is paying attention to who is or isn't taking the at-home classes, which are conducted on the employees' own time. The civics course is offered as part of a battery of courses, most of which pertain to products sold by the company, or other aspects of working at Menards.

They are when you're participating in activities directly designed to hurt your employer. Really, what's the difference between advocating high-tax, low-profit Democrat policies and burning down a Company warehouse? In both cases, you're hurting the Company and should be fired.

They are when you're participating in activities directly designed to hurt your employer. Really, what's the difference between advocating high-tax, low-profit Democrat policies and burning down a Company warehouse? In both cases, you're hurting the Company and should be fired.

They are when you're participating in activities directly designed to hurt your employer. Really, what's the difference between advocating high-tax, low-profit Democrat policies and burning down a Company warehouse? In both cases, you're hurting the Company and should be fired.

I was just about to spend several thousand dollars on hardwood flooring from Menards.

I guess I'll take my business to Lowes. I bought a new Samsung washer and dryer set a few months ago. Really happy with the service, free delivery, and set-up. I'll pay a little more for the flooring just for spite now. Menards is on my stores to avoid at all costs list with Wal-Mart and Target.

I've read a few stories now in which companies warn their employees to vote Romney or face some consequence. They were all companies that benefited from the housing boom in a big way, and would like another housing boom please.

MPAVictoria:So can anyone tell me if Shaggy is kidding or if he is continuing his dissent into right wing nuttery?/What happened to you man?//You used to be cool!

Some time ago, he would post regular comments interspersed with trolls. He said, more than a few times, that people didn't respond to the normal comments, so he would troll and say stupid things because people would respond (he needed the attention, apparently).

If only there were some way that workers could organize to collectively protect their interests and prevent this kind of intimidation from management.

I'm not personally a big union guy, but I'd come down there and pass out union literature in those stores. Watching the managers heads explode trying to avoid the 60% pay cut would almost be worth the trip.

While it's certainly not an employer threatening to fire employees for voting Obama it still is an employer actively campaigning for Romney, and is ethically murky I think, especially since people who go through the propaganda course are rewarded.

It certainly falls in line with Romney's leaked tape telling CEOs to encourage their workers to vote for Obama, something that we've seen a wave of this election.

"I hope you make it very clear to your employees what you believe is in the best interest of your enterprise and therefore their job and their future in the upcoming elections. And whether you agree with me or you agree with President Obama, or whatever your political view, I hope - I hope you pass those along to your employees. Nothing illegal about you talking to your employees about what you believe is best for the business, because I think that will figure into their election decision, their voting decision and of course doing that with your family and your kids as well."

I think whenever a politician feels compelled to say "there's nothing illegal about doing what I'm telling you to do", you've probably waded into some ethically ambiguous territory at the very least. Of course the unions certainly do the same thing, though they have a lot more evidence of Republicans attacking unions than Democrats attacking businesses, and Obama isn't secretly encouraging them to do so. As far as we know.

They are when you're participating in activities directly designed to hurt your employer. Really, what's the difference between advocating high-tax, low-profit Democrat policies and burning down a Company warehouse? In both cases, you're hurting the Company and should be fired.

Well, I was all ready to go with the fire-bombs, but now that you mention it, I think I'll pursue grassroots political action.

They are when you're participating in activities directly designed to http://www.fark.com/comments/7411889?startid=80398478&fpost=Ua_iXIvbFQ k5X7lmY9UC5QegiiHVlTekE_ztXn3#bhurt your employer. Really, what's the difference between advocating high-tax, low-profit Democrat policies and burning down a Company warehouse? In both cases, you're hurting the Company and should be fired.

Not to belabor the point, but I for one am relieved that subby fails in every way imaginable. As someone who regularly engages in home improvement projects, has only a Lowe's local, and prefers Home Depot when it's available, I was concerned for a moment. After reading TFA, I'm relieved to be able to justify my gut instinct which had always warned me against Menard's.

/Always thought it was just their creepy-as-fark spokesman//Runs in the family - me, my dad, and my grandpa all got the screaming heebie-jeebies from him